Three days in a row above 40 degrees

[AFLflyer]

42.5 and feels like it's rising!!!! BDO would be fun at the moment!

[hearts on fire]

42.5 and feels like it's rising!!!! BDO would be fun at the moment!

doesn't feel like it, i just walked home.......

[AFLflyer]

42.5 and feels like it's rising!!!! BDO would be fun at the moment!

doesn't feel like it, i just walked home.......

[Dutchy]

Was working at Kent Town until midday and we lost power, got hot in no time, so Im working from home this arvo....

[wycbloods]

Was working at Kent Town until midday and we lost power, got hot in no time, so Im working from home this arvo....

Doesn't look like it Dutchy

[Dutchy]

Was working at Kent Town until midday and we lost power, got hot in no time, so Im working from home this arvo....

Doesn't look like it Dutchy

and then home loses power back 20 mins later thank god

[hearts on fire]

We've been pretty lucky here, haven't had a black out yet...... *touch wood*

[TroyGFC]

Power went out around Warradale area for about 40mins. Found a site that keeps u up 2 date on areas affected.

http://www.etsa.com.au/centric/news_inf ... urrent.jsp

[wycbloods]

My house at reynella east was out from 7:30 last night till 12:00. Not too good when you are trying to get a 8 month old kid to sleep .

[Leaping Lindner]

Sea breeze is starting to take effect here and the temperature has dropped to 33 degrees.

[spell_check]

Another record for today, the first instance of four 43 degree days in a row, in fact there previously never had been more than two in a row:

11-12/2/1899
4-5/1/1906
1-2/2/1912
9-10/1/1939
12-13/1/1939

The minimum temperature of 29.4 beats the 30th of January record set in 1964 (27.0).
The maximum temperature so far has only equalled the 30th of January record set in 1968 (43.1).

[spell_check]

It is more than just a good idea. It is a disgrace it is not happening. Adelaide gets plenty of rain each year.

If a road is, conservatively, 15mt wide, then during a dryish 20-inch rainfall (Adelaide averages 25-26 inches Spelly?), just 1km of road would catch 7,500,000 litres a year. There would be a small wastage through cleaning, filtering, etc and at times not every drop would be able to be stored.
But over all of Adelaide, how much would we be able to catch? We would be able to be close to self-sufficient, with the Murray as a back-up, not our principal source of water. We may not even need to draw on it in those years we get a Jan or Feb rain

I apologise for missing your query FlyingHigh, but the average Adelaide rainfall varies depending on where you hear it from. It is always in the range of 540-570mm; however with all the data I have collated it averages 532mm. Which is actually 20.94 inches.

It is interesting to note that while some parts of Australia (mainly in Victoria) have had the worst drought on record (x amount of years = x meaning decade or more), Adelaide has only had the past three years below that average. Prior to that, between 1998 and 2005, only 2002 was below 532mm.

[spell_check]

The ten wettest years according to my data is:

1992 883.2
1851 786.4
1889 785.6
1923 757.4
1875 742.9
1917 735.9
1916 716.2
2001 716.2
1909 704.1
1847 700.0

And for the other extreme, the dry:
1967 257.8
2006 286.2
1959 288.4
1914 290.8
1965 340.0
1876 342.5
1891 352.1
1982 356.6
1976 366.4
1886 367.9

[spell_check]

If the forecast maximums are correct, the 12 days up to and including the 6th of February would average 40.2, the longest span of 40 degree average temperatures. I think it will mainly depend on when the cool change comes through.

[spell_check]

Oh, and since it is the 3rd today, I'll post the temperature records for today:

Lowest Minimum: 10.3 (1927)
Highest Minimum: 27.6 (1993)
Average: 16.6

Lowest Maximum: 19.2 (1941)
Highest Maximum: 42.2 (1912)
Average: 29.5

Rainfall: 31.8mm (1846)
Last rainfall on 3rd: 0.8mm (2005)

[spell_check]

43.6 today, another daily record, this time the previous record was 42.3 on 6/2/1901.

Edit: Spoke too soon, it's now 43.7.

2nd Edit: 43.9.

[smithy]

Forecast temperature for Renmark tomorrow is 48.
Don't think I've ever seen a forecast temperature that hot before.

[spell_check]

Forecast temperature for Renmark tomorrow is 48.
Don't think I've ever seen a forecast temperature that hot before.

I haven't. It probably gets forecasted now and again in the WA Pilbara region.

[FlyingHigh]

Forecast temperature for Renmark tomorrow is 48.
Don't think I've ever seen a forecast temperature that hot before.

I haven't. It probably gets forecasted now and again in the WA Pilbara region.

In January 2001 both Ceduna and Wudinna had forecast temperatures of 48, and it got to that in both places.

[spell_check]

Forecast temperature for Renmark tomorrow is 48.
Don't think I've ever seen a forecast temperature that hot before.

I haven't. It probably gets forecasted now and again in the WA Pilbara region.

In January 2001 both Ceduna and Wudinna had forecast temperatures of 48, and it got to that in both places.

I guess it depends on when the change comes or how much cloud cover tomorrow with these temperatures.